So how would you rate my university's website, the only place I can sign up for my classes (IE only)? Should I quit until they fix it for lynx?
I don't know what University you go to. One university I was thinking of going to (when I was just a teeny-bopper) offered me a partial scholarship but I turned them down because of the very poor customer service. I would have probably done the same with your university. If you've already committed yourself financially then you can always try to ask for a refund or a transfer. I'm sorry to hear about your school. You should complain to the student union about this absurdity.
Something like "Downloadhelper is good for Youtube. It's a Firefox extension. You don't need Javascript or flash enabled to use it. Just download the video and watch it as many times as you want. I know there are other programs like this, but this one is actually up-todate and simple to use.
... because I seem to spend half of my time allowing things that I need...
You can either white list those "things that I need" or go to better Web sites. If you want Web 2.0 then you need a better connection. If you want to save bandwidth turn off all scripting and disallow iframes, meta-refreshes, plugins etc. Better yet use Lynx as people have already suggested. A Website that can't be viewed with Lynx is a Web site not worth visiting.
...organized groups that engage in rape, murder, racketeering, smuggling, and turf wars with a side order of drug sales.
Marijuana or cocaine doesn't cause people to rape or murder. Bad drug laws certainly facilitate these behaviours however. As for Ron Paul, I've heard the name before but I have never researched him. I develop my principle's on logic and reasoning and not by following some politician or political fad.
Like I've said in previous posts in previous discussions; attempting to stop terror by terrorizing your own population defeats the point. If people want to be Free then you guys have to stop harassing each other and using a jail as a baby sitter. Spend more money on social programs and less money on law enforcement then people will be happier, healthier and more law abiding. War, whether it be international or within one's boarders, only helps the bad guys.
...card-carrying member of the ACLU who refused one of those searches and they made him get the hell out of his vehicle and sit at the side of the highway while they tore his car apart.
What do YOU propose law enforcement officials do if they conduct a perfectly legal stop to verify documentation, and there is reasonable cause during the stop to suspect that other laws are being broken?
I have a solution; eliminate these immoral and impractical drug laws and arrest the people responsible for the harm caused by these laws (that is make them criminally and civilly responsible for the damage and hardship they have caused people). Punish the bad guys.
This list of articles was then manually sorted for relevance to children, and adult topics were removed.
and
Wikipedia is not necessarily a childsafe environment, has "adult" content.
What exactly are the "adult" contents that were removed? Does this mean things like historical articles referencing war and dictators. I was half thinking about finding a copy for myself to download, but I don't know what the criteria is for censoring an encyclopedia.
i'm looking at you, NetAlert and the Howard government
Don't look at ME! -:) I want nothing to do with either NetAlert nor the Howard government, and besides I'm rather shy and don't like being looked at (hence my interest in privacy).
... software package that doesn't actually work and wouldn't be used
Oh I'm sure it will have some utility. They'll catch small fish in a big ocean and market their successes. As to how practical such a system is in this day and age; we will just have to wait and see.
My fear is really for the future. The trends away from privacy and freedom in the democratic world are happening very quckly and with very little opposition. Those who are more educated about such things tend to stamp their feet more, but we are few and far between. I'd be much more interested in further developing technologies that can subvert such oppressive systems (like Tor or Freenet, but those options become less viable with increased control and legislation of the Internet).
You will often find me taking a neutral ground in discussions like this unless their is an asshat available who brings up think-of-the-children type fallacies. Even then lambasting people with logic gets tedious sometimes (lather, rinse, repeat...).
I'm wondering if the RIAA told on him. I'm wondering if I decide to write a poem and post it on my Website; will I then have to pay to have a lawyer formally copyright it for me. I suppose it would be useless for me to even start a blog in that case.
I'm not understanding why Britain wants to be so much like North Korea. Britain is trying to create terror in its own civilian population and yet claims to be fighting against terrorism. There's something not right here.
So anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid, incompetent, and unable to do their jobs?
Not at all. I would ideally expect a manager to at least listen and preferably give due diligence to employees and their ideas. In my experiences this rarely happens, and from what I've read in text books, news papers et al, Managers often tend to have an attitude and competence problem.
You must be a hit with your bosses.
This is not true. Managers tend to prefer drinking buddies and sycophants. When I go to work I prefer to work and not socialize. Eagles fly with eagles.
Addendum: As for your time consuming suggestions I would say it is a waist of time. One might as well just have a suggestion box (which is a euphemism for a garbage can). In my experience people don't get into Management because they are smart or hard working (willing to read and analyze these suggestions). A good Manager will smile and say thanks a lot before ignoring you. A bad Manager will just condescend.
most socially/emotionally healthy individuals have a powerful tool at there disposable called "interpersonal communication.
That only works if you are dealing with a socially and emotionally healthy individual that has interpersonal communication skills. I've seen very little of this in Management. In fact if management did have any type of skills in this situation they wouldn't have such unfounded biases towards open source software developers or the products they produce.
Assuming this is true, the "harm" done is negligible if non-existent. TV stations create schedules to increase viewership of individual programs. The purpose of a schedule is to schedule and not to sell as a commodity. Whether it is a legal entity in itself is besides the point. People don't want to be sued for telling their friend that The Simpson's is going to be on TV at 6 oclock on channel 5.
I've never heard that non-creative works cannot be copyrighted. You certainly don't offer any references or proof. All of my techie books have copyright notices in them. From the Wiki,
"Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms, or "works".
"Intellectual" should certainly be emphasized.
In this case there may be lawyers who will push the bounds of copyright beyond the more obvious. If there is money to be made and taxes to collect then governments may very well create new laws (assuming the plaintiffs lose) to appease unbounded capitalism (the plutocracy).
Few, non-weird, churches make their females cover their heads any more.
I'm trying to think of a church (or temple, or mosque or synagogue) that isn't weird. It's not happening for me as they all appear to have there own unique "weird" attributes. It seems however as this statement was meant more as a Flame towards people who prefer a more normal lifestyle.
Well I've got more than 32 years on you (but really that is irrelevant).
If you don't trust someone they're a damn sight less likely to trust you.
For me, I have always assumed that people are trustworthy (well less so as I get older, but I always find it intellectually fair to assume people are trustworthy). What I have noticed however, is that the more I get to know these "trustworthy" people the more I find contradictions in their stories, evidence of backstabbing etc. On the contrary, people have even called me a liar when I say the simplest things. I've always found that people who lie always assume other people lie. People almost always project the facade of trust and friendship.
My experiences have largely been backed up by science. Some people just have a lot of cognitive dissonance about the subject (i.e. they cannot believe their best friend is a backstabber or their husband is an adulterer and so deny the facts). Taking the adultery example, about 90% of Americans believe adultery is wrong and yet 50-70 percent of Americans commit adultery.
In general I would say you are either very lucky or very naive.
Sometimes theres 'the right thing' and sometimes theres 'things you just don't do regardless because you know the reactions are going to be heightened'. In modern society, we also call it 'flamebait'.
It's actually called blaming the victim. I doubt, for example, if Muslim woman in Pakistan Flamebait religious fanatics by not wearing a veil just because they want to get acid thrown in their faces.
Yes I know many people believe that because it is their culture it must be condoned. Unfortunately very few people respect my culture of freedom and hedonism because most people are hypocrites. Taking a appeasement approach towards censorship never helps, and trivializing the opposition is just condescending.
I will emphasize this point (you said): "And deliberately carrying out an act which is proven will enrage a fairly powerly group". I didn't see any evidence to malicious motivations from either Sony, the musician, nor the parent post which you are replying to.
It's been no secret to me that Saudi Arabia has always been a poor country, and it's citizens have become poorer over the decades.
Beggars hawk bottles of water at intersections. Penniless women huddle in strips of shade outside their crumbling mud-brick houses, begging for money. Many families in the capital are so poor they can't afford electricity. Raw sewage runs through parts of Jidda.
The princes have treated the country's wealth of oil and minerals as their personal domain and made themselves famous for their extravagant life style. Some princes have accumulated enormous personal wealth; with King Fahd bin Abd al-Aziz, the reigning monarch, topping the list with a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion.
...
A Saudi newspaper speculates that while the unemployment rate is estimated at 20 percent it could be as high as 30 percent. The irony of the situation is that the Saudis employ 6 to 7 million foreign workers, including 3 million maids and drivers.
And it's obvious why the Saudi's prefer foreign workers:
current situation: Saudi Arabia is a destination country for workers from South and Southeast Asia who are subjected to conditions that constitute involuntary servitude including being subjected to physical and sexual abuse, non-payment of wages, confinement, and withholding of passports as a restriction on their movement; domestic workers are particularly vulnerable because some are confined to the house in which they work unable to seek help; Saudi Arabia is also a destination country for Nigerian, Yemeni, Pakistani, Afghan, Somali, Malian, and Sudanese children trafficked for forced begging and involuntary servitude as street vendors; some Nigerian women were reportedly trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial sexual exploitation.
I have also read in a different study that 60% of people tell a lie within the first ten minutes of a conversation. To me this is scary and shows my deviance.
As for stealing, most people are opportunistic and the majority will steal indirectly or when there isn't a direct association of money involved (i.e. cheating on taxes, stealing a can of coke found on a table rather than a one dollar bill standing on a table) rather than robbing a bank.
As for violence, most people do it by proxy (i.e. through the support of War, like the War on Drugs, etc), or by causing a person to be fired from a job by gossiping about that person, etc. People don't need to use a gun to hurt other people.
You said:
If the majority really were dishonest, untrustworthy and violent society just wouldn't function.
People cooperate enough with each other to survive. They do this because they have to, not because they want to.
For the record, I don't (and didn't) wholly disagree with the posters statements. At the time I found them Trollish however. Motivations are difficult to prove. In hindsight I suppose I shouldn't be too quick to comment.
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So how would you rate my university's website, the only place I can sign up for my classes (IE only)? Should I quit until they fix it for lynx?
I don't know what University you go to. One university I was thinking of going to (when I was just a teeny-bopper) offered me a partial scholarship but I turned them down because of the very poor customer service. I would have probably done the same with your university. If you've already committed yourself financially then you can always try to ask for a refund or a transfer. I'm sorry to hear about your school. You should complain to the student union about this absurdity.
The only time I don't preview my posts is the only time they need to be corrected. Here is the Link to downloadhelper:
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Something like "Downloadhelper is good for Youtube. It's a Firefox extension. You don't need Javascript or flash enabled to use it. Just download the video and watch it as many times as you want. I know there are other programs like this, but this one is actually up-todate and simple to use.
... because I seem to spend half of my time allowing things that I need...
You can either white list those "things that I need" or go to better Web sites. If you want Web 2.0 then you need a better connection. If you want to save bandwidth turn off all scripting and disallow iframes, meta-refreshes, plugins etc. Better yet use Lynx as people have already suggested. A Website that can't be viewed with Lynx is a Web site not worth visiting.
...organized groups that engage in rape, murder, racketeering, smuggling, and turf wars with a side order of drug sales.
Marijuana or cocaine doesn't cause people to rape or murder. Bad drug laws certainly facilitate these behaviours however. As for Ron Paul, I've heard the name before but I have never researched him. I develop my principle's on logic and reasoning and not by following some politician or political fad.
Like I've said in previous posts in previous discussions; attempting to stop terror by terrorizing your own population defeats the point. If people want to be Free then you guys have to stop harassing each other and using a jail as a baby sitter. Spend more money on social programs and less money on law enforcement then people will be happier, healthier and more law abiding. War, whether it be international or within one's boarders, only helps the bad guys.
...card-carrying member of the ACLU who refused one of those searches and they made him get the hell out of his vehicle and sit at the side of the highway while they tore his car apart.
It appears as if he didn't "refuse" hard enough.
What do YOU propose law enforcement officials do if they conduct a perfectly legal stop to verify documentation, and there is reasonable cause during the stop to suspect that other laws are being broken?
I have a solution; eliminate these immoral and impractical drug laws and arrest the people responsible for the harm caused by these laws (that is make them criminally and civilly responsible for the damage and hardship they have caused people). Punish the bad guys.
From the http://schools-wikipedia.org/ home page:
This list of articles was then manually sorted for relevance to children, and adult topics were removed.
and
Wikipedia is not necessarily a childsafe environment, has "adult" content.
What exactly are the "adult" contents that were removed? Does this mean things like historical articles referencing war and dictators. I was half thinking about finding a copy for myself to download, but I don't know what the criteria is for censoring an encyclopedia.
i'm looking at you, NetAlert and the Howard government
Don't look at ME! -:) I want nothing to do with either NetAlert nor the Howard government, and besides I'm rather shy and don't like being looked at (hence my interest in privacy).
... software package that doesn't actually work and wouldn't be used
Oh I'm sure it will have some utility. They'll catch small fish in a big ocean and market their successes. As to how practical such a system is in this day and age; we will just have to wait and see.
My fear is really for the future. The trends away from privacy and freedom in the democratic world are happening very quckly and with very little opposition. Those who are more educated about such things tend to stamp their feet more, but we are few and far between. I'd be much more interested in further developing technologies that can subvert such oppressive systems (like Tor or Freenet, but those options become less viable with increased control and legislation of the Internet).
You will often find me taking a neutral ground in discussions like this unless their is an asshat available who brings up think-of-the-children type fallacies. Even then lambasting people with logic gets tedious sometimes (lather, rinse, repeat...).
Best regards,
UTW
I'm wondering if the RIAA told on him. I'm wondering if I decide to write a poem and post it on my Website; will I then have to pay to have a lawyer formally copyright it for me. I suppose it would be useless for me to even start a blog in that case.
I'm not understanding why Britain wants to be so much like North Korea. Britain is trying to create terror in its own civilian population and yet claims to be fighting against terrorism. There's something not right here.
So anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid, incompetent, and unable to do their jobs?
Not at all. I would ideally expect a manager to at least listen and preferably give due diligence to employees and their ideas. In my experiences this rarely happens, and from what I've read in text books, news papers et al, Managers often tend to have an attitude and competence problem.
You must be a hit with your bosses.
This is not true. Managers tend to prefer drinking buddies and sycophants. When I go to work I prefer to work and not socialize. Eagles fly with eagles.
Addendum: As for your time consuming suggestions I would say it is a waist of time. One might as well just have a suggestion box (which is a euphemism for a garbage can). In my experience people don't get into Management because they are smart or hard working (willing to read and analyze these suggestions). A good Manager will smile and say thanks a lot before ignoring you. A bad Manager will just condescend.
most socially/emotionally healthy individuals have a powerful tool at there disposable called "interpersonal communication.
That only works if you are dealing with a socially and emotionally healthy individual that has interpersonal communication skills. I've seen very little of this in Management. In fact if management did have any type of skills in this situation they wouldn't have such unfounded biases towards open source software developers or the products they produce.
Assuming this is true, the "harm" done is negligible if non-existent. TV stations create schedules to increase viewership of individual programs. The purpose of a schedule is to schedule and not to sell as a commodity. Whether it is a legal entity in itself is besides the point. People don't want to be sued for telling their friend that The Simpson's is going to be on TV at 6 oclock on channel 5.
I've never heard that non-creative works cannot be copyrighted. You certainly don't offer any references or proof. All of my techie books have copyright notices in them. From the Wiki,
"Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms, or "works".
"Intellectual" should certainly be emphasized.
In this case there may be lawyers who will push the bounds of copyright beyond the more obvious. If there is money to be made and taxes to collect then governments may very well create new laws (assuming the plaintiffs lose) to appease unbounded capitalism (the plutocracy).
Few, non-weird, churches make their females cover their heads any more.
I'm trying to think of a church (or temple, or mosque or synagogue) that isn't weird. It's not happening for me as they all appear to have there own unique "weird" attributes. It seems however as this statement was meant more as a Flame towards people who prefer a more normal lifestyle.
Well I've got more than 32 years on you (but really that is irrelevant).
If you don't trust someone they're a damn sight less likely to trust you.
For me, I have always assumed that people are trustworthy (well less so as I get older, but I always find it intellectually fair to assume people are trustworthy). What I have noticed however, is that the more I get to know these "trustworthy" people the more I find contradictions in their stories, evidence of backstabbing etc. On the contrary, people have even called me a liar when I say the simplest things. I've always found that people who lie always assume other people lie. People almost always project the facade of trust and friendship.
My experiences have largely been backed up by science. Some people just have a lot of cognitive dissonance about the subject (i.e. they cannot believe their best friend is a backstabber or their husband is an adulterer and so deny the facts). Taking the adultery example, about 90% of Americans believe adultery is wrong and yet 50-70 percent of Americans commit adultery.
In general I would say you are either very lucky or very naive.
Best regards,
UTW
Sometimes theres 'the right thing' and sometimes theres 'things you just don't do regardless because you know the reactions are going to be heightened'. In modern society, we also call it 'flamebait'.
It's actually called blaming the victim. I doubt, for example, if Muslim woman in Pakistan Flamebait religious fanatics by not wearing a veil just because they want to get acid thrown in their faces.
Yes I know many people believe that because it is their culture it must be condoned. Unfortunately very few people respect my culture of freedom and hedonism because most people are hypocrites. Taking a appeasement approach towards censorship never helps, and trivializing the opposition is just condescending.
I will emphasize this point (you said):
"And deliberately carrying out an act which is proven will enrage a fairly powerly group".
I didn't see any evidence to malicious motivations from either Sony, the musician, nor the parent post which you are replying to.
It's been no secret to me that Saudi Arabia has always been a poor country, and it's citizens have become poorer over the decades.
Beggars hawk bottles of water at intersections. Penniless women huddle in strips of shade outside their crumbling mud-brick houses, begging for money. Many families in the capital are so poor they can't afford electricity. Raw sewage runs through parts of Jidda.
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3412.htm
The princes have treated the country's wealth of oil and minerals as their personal domain and made themselves famous for their extravagant life style. Some princes have accumulated enormous personal wealth; with King Fahd bin Abd al-Aziz, the reigning monarch, topping the list with a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion.
...
A Saudi newspaper speculates that while the unemployment rate is estimated at 20 percent it could be as high as 30 percent. The irony of the situation is that the Saudis employ 6 to 7 million foreign workers, including 3 million maids and drivers.
And it's obvious why the Saudi's prefer foreign workers:
current situation: Saudi Arabia is a destination country for workers from South and Southeast Asia who are subjected to conditions that constitute involuntary servitude including being subjected to physical and sexual abuse, non-payment of wages, confinement, and withholding of passports as a restriction on their movement; domestic workers are particularly vulnerable because some are confined to the house in which they work unable to seek help; Saudi Arabia is also a destination country for Nigerian, Yemeni, Pakistani, Afghan, Somali, Malian, and Sudanese children trafficked for forced begging and involuntary servitude as street vendors; some Nigerian women were reportedly trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial sexual exploitation.
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/sa.html
of even L.Ron Hubbard sending out murderers to advance their religion.
The only reason you don't hear about this is because the Church of Scientology sends out DMCA take down notices and stalks people with SLAPPs.
You said:
The majority of people are honest, trustworthy and non-violent (but I agree on the hypocritical).
Well about honesty at least, I will give you a reference:
According to a national study, 91 percent of people lie on a regular basis
-http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:9qQnT8iuIioJ:www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/FALL06_P58-P71.pdf+percentage+of+people+who+lie&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
I have also read in a different study that 60% of people tell a lie within the first ten minutes of a conversation. To me this is scary and shows my deviance.
As for stealing, most people are opportunistic and the majority will steal indirectly or when there isn't a direct association of money involved (i.e. cheating on taxes, stealing a can of coke found on a table rather than a one dollar bill standing on a table) rather than robbing a bank.
As for violence, most people do it by proxy (i.e. through the support of War, like the War on Drugs, etc), or by causing a person to be fired from a job by gossiping about that person, etc. People don't need to use a gun to hurt other people.
You said:
If the majority really were dishonest, untrustworthy and violent society just wouldn't function.
People cooperate enough with each other to survive. They do this because they have to, not because they want to.
For the record, I don't (and didn't) wholly disagree with the posters statements. At the time I found them Trollish however. Motivations are difficult to prove. In hindsight I suppose I shouldn't be too quick to comment.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for the Funny moderation. But +5 Insightful (which you were assigned) I think not.
Best regards,
UTW
Ironic that I was labeled a Troll here. This is exactly what I am talking about.